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<span style="font-family: Garamond, serif; margin: 0px; letter-spacing: 0.3pt; color: rgb(35, 35, 51); background-color: white;">NSF Geospace Section and Related Announcements</span></p>
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<div><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px; letter-spacing: 0.3pt; color: rgb(35, 35, 51); background-color: white;">1. The Geospace section of the NSF Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences will host a virtual office
hour on<span> </span><b>Wednesday, August 2nd, 2023, 1:00-2:30pm EDT</b>. Geospace program officers will be available to answer questions on NSF Geospace programs, including the recently-released Faculty Development in geoSpace Science (FDSS) solicitation </span><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 11pt; letter-spacing: 0.3pt; color: rgb(35, 35, 51);"><a href="https://new.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/faculty-development-geospace-science-fdss" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="0" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193);">https://new.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/faculty-development-geospace-science-fdss</a> with
a target date of September 18 for this year. </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Garamond, serif; letter-spacing: 0.3pt; color: rgb(35, 35, 51);">Registration is required to attend this virtual office hour. Please <b>register by Monday, July
31st</b>: </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Garamond, serif; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);"><a href="https://nsf.zoomgov.com/meeting/register/vJItd-CuqDsoE7eowGW9FAugIemikKxQnpQ" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="1" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193);">https://nsf.zoomgov.com/meeting/register/vJItd-CuqDsoE7eowGW9FAugIemikKxQnpQ</a>. </span><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;">After
registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family:Garamond, serif;font-size:11pt;margin:0px">2. The NSF Directorate of Geosciences (GEO) will host the next GEO-EMpowering BRoader Academic Capacity and Education (GEO-EMBRACE) drop-in Virtual Office Hour (VOH) on <b>24 July 2023 (Monday) between
4-5 PM Eastern Time. </b> We invite faculty members at emerging (non-R1) academic institutions (e.g., Community Colleges, Tribal Colleges and Universities, MSIs, HBCUs, Undergraduate, Masters, and R2 Institutions) to engage with GEO Program Directors to address
concerns and ask questions about opportunities found in the <a href="https://www.nsf.gov/geo/geo-embrace/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" title="https://www.nsf.gov/geo/geo-embrace/" data-linkindex="2" style="margin: 0px; text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(5, 99, 193);">GEO-EMBRACE web
portal</a>. To attend the VOH, please register using this link (<a href="https://nsf.zoomgov.com/meeting/register/vJItfuigqD0uErASZOC8b6daqsz0-kOXCv8" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" title="https://nsf.zoomgov.com/meeting/register/vJItfuigqD0uErASZOC8b6daqsz0-kOXCv8" data-linkindex="3" style="margin: 0px; text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(5, 99, 193);">https://nsf.zoomgov.com/meeting/register/vJItfuigqD0uErASZOC8b6daqsz0-kOXCv8</a>).</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family:Garamond, serif;font-size:11pt;margin:0px">3. The NSF Directorate for Geosciences (GEO) has released a new Dear Colleague Letter on <a href="https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2023/nsf23125/nsf23125.jsp" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" title="https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2023/nsf23125/nsf23125.jsp" data-linkindex="4" style="margin: 0px; text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(5, 99, 193);">Extreme,
Compound, and Cascading Hazards (EC2H)</a>. </span><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;">The DCL encourages submission of proposals that advance our fundamental understanding of natural disasters, extreme events, and other natural hazards</span><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;"> </span><b style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit;">including
extreme space weather</b><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;">. The focus is on proposals that explore: 1) system of systems approaches, 2) cascading or compound hazards, 3) interactions between longer-term trends and extreme events, and 4) processes
occurring at multiple scales ranging from local to regional to planetary.</span></div>
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